He is basing his guess on new government statistics that show business has broadened its stride -- a new record high in personal income, an increase in housing starts, a spurt in retail sales and a gain in orders for durable goods.

Corroborating Mr. Hodges' figures was the Federal Reserve Board's report of the large sales increase in the nation's department stores for the week ending March 4.

The 2% increase in retail sales in October to a 4-month high is encouraging in this connection as well as the most recent consumer survey by the National Industrial Conference Board, which shows a decided pickup in consumer spending plans.

The administration has said the sales tax proposal is merely part of the segregation strategy, since the revenues from the increase would be dedicated to a grant in aid program.

Some contracts specify a scale of royalties payable ( for example, where royalties start at 10 % for the first 10, 000 sales, but then increase to a higher percentage rate at higher sale thresholds ).

During its decline, Master RAM Boards were added to every Electron in an attempt to increase sales.

Restaurant industry sales are expected to reach a record high of $ 476 billion in 2005, an increase of 4. 9 percent over 2004 ...

By changing Bovril to a non-meat base, Unilever hoped to increase sales there, where people enjoy Bovril stirred into porridge.

The growth of exports in 2006 was mainly caused by a strong increase in sales to the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan.

One of the sales promotion actions to increase purchase of domestic products

For example, during the eight-year period ending in 2008, despite overall growth in music sales and one anomalous year of increase, major-label CD sales declined overall by 20 %.

It was also reported that the incident led to a 300 % increase in sales of croquet equipment at Asda, while the TV Five announced that they would be running a series featuring croquet matches played at country houses pitting " rich " against " poor " players.

A Doom-based game called Chex Quest was released in 1996 by Ralston Foods as a promotion to increase cereal sales, and the United States Marine Corps released Marine Doom, designed to " teach teamwork, coordination and decision-making ".

The news of Jones ' death triggered a surge of Internet traffic, causing sales of The Monkees ' music to increase dramatically.

* 2012: US eCommerce and Online Retail sales projected to reach $ 226 billion, an increase of 12 percent over 2011.

Shrimp contributed US $ 97 million in export sales to the economy in 1992 — an increase of 33 percent over the previous year.

Although Holden's involvement in exports has fluctuated since the 1950s, the declining sales of large cars in Australia has led the company to look to international markets to increase profitability.

The baby boom saw a significant increase in sales for Jello.

For a monopoly to increase sales it must reduce price.

For example, a firm could cut prices and increase sales without fear that its actions will prompt retaliatory responses from competitors.

This was seen as a backdoor tactic to increase the number of OS / 2 users, in the belief that this would increase sales and demand for third-party applications, and thus strengthen OS / 2's desktop numbers.

Concerned that the considerable price increase of a Type 911 with " flat " six-cylinder powerplant over the Type 356 would cost the company sales and narrow brand appeal, Porsche executives decided to introduce a new four-cylinder entry-level model.

Traditionally pubs in England were drinking establishments and little emphasis was placed on the serving of food, other than " bar snacks ", such as pork scratchings, and pickled eggs, along with salted crisps and peanuts which helped to increase beer sales.

A 2006 Cochrane Collaboration review of controlled trials of antipsychotics in old age dementia reported that one or two of the drugs showed a modest benefit compared to placebo in managing aggression or psychosis, but that this was combined with a significant increase in serious adverse events.

This was a large increase with the number of cell phones almost doubling from the 250, 000 in use in 2006.

This was a small increase from 60, 000 internet users in 2006.

The 2011 figures show an increase of some 64, 000 speakers compared to the 2006 figures to 714, 136, with significant increases in the Autonomous Community but a slight drop in the Northern Basque Country to 51, 100, overall amounting to an increase to 27 % of all inhabitants of Basque provinces ( 2, 648, 998 in total ).

2007, a 71 percent increase over 2006.

During 2006, exports of goods and services totaled US $ 58 billion, an increase of 41 %.

Exports to Asia increased from US $ 15. 2 billion in 2005 to US $ 19. 7 billion in 2006, a 29. 9 % increase.

A recent report ( 2006 ) by the NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, indicates that the increased rat presence on Clipperton Island has led to a decline in both crab and bird populations, causing a corresponding increase in both vegetation and coconut palms on the island.

The textiles sector experienced an approximate 17 % drop in exports due in part to the appreciation of the Dominican peso against the dollar, Asian competition following expiration of the quotas of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement, and a government-mandated increase in salaries, which should have occurred in 2005 but was postponed to January 2006.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

In 2006, a research study at Malmö University's Faculty of Odontology suggested that performing unprotected oral sex on a person infected with HPV might increase the risk of oral cancer.

Under President René Préval ( President from 1996 to 2001 and from 2006 until 14 May 2011 ), the country's economic agenda included trade and tariff liberalization, measures to control government expenditure and increase tax revenues, civil-service downsizing, financial-sector reform, and the modernization of state-owned enterprises through their sale to private investors, the provision of private sector management contracts, or joint public-private investment.

As of the 2011 census the population was 6, 699, an increase of 8. 3 percent from the 2006 census ; it has the lowest population of any capital city in Canada.

Islamist or fundamentalist attacks are also on the increase in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, where hundreds have been killed in 2006 and 2007, although in both countries not all of the attacks have been on civilians.

representing a real-term increase of 12 % on 2006.

" Basic commodity prices have increased from 30 % to 60 % since the military regime promoted a salary increase for government workers in April 2006 ," said Soe Win, the moderator of the workshop.

Today, the New Zealand vehicle fleet ( as of June 2006 ) counts 3, 226, 614 vehicles, an increase of 2. 42 % compared to the previous year.

The growth of traffic between Europe and Asia is an additional opportunity ; more than 6, 000 km of international communication cables were built during the first nine months of 2007, representing a 48. 5 % increase on 2006, according to the Russian Ministry of Communication and Mass Media.

This helped increase Sega's profits in 2006.

Following an increase of around 50 % in budget resources, the RDA disposes of a total budget of € 19. 31 million in 2006.

This marks an increase of 4. 4 % since 2006.

The numbers arriving continued to increase, and at the 2006 census there were over 7, 000 Sri Lankans living in New Zealand.

In 2006, Google published a trillion-word corpus, while Carnegie Mellon University researchers found no significant increase in recognition accuracy.